Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 697: Strange Case

"What the hell are you two talking about!" Luo Yanxing stuck out his neck, deliberately put on a fierce look, raised his voice and shouted, but the tips of his ears turned red uncontrollably.

Mei Yue and Yuan Shan laughed even louder from inside the room.

Luo Yanxing's ears turned even redder. "Um, what are you doing in the shop? I want to go see the lanterns. Do you want to come with me?"

Chen Yunze forced a slightly stiff smile, "No, I'm busy today, so I'll leave first. I'll leave this to you."

"Okay." Luo Yanxing scratched the back of his head and watched him go away. He breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt lost.

She took a deep breath and exhaled over and over again, and after a long time she finally adjusted her mood before going into the house.

The main person left. In front of Mei Yue and Yuan Shan, she was not so shy. After asking Chen Yunze about his purpose, she couldn't help but sigh: "Song Ying's reputation is spreading further and further. At this rate, it won't be long before he becomes famous all over the world!"

"You're too optimistic." Yuan Shan shook her head. "It's difficult to completely cure a stroke."

Although she did not learn medical skills while dispensing medicine in the clinic, she learned a lot about illnesses through observation and observation.

Especially during the twelfth and first lunar months, when there is a lot of free time, other doctors in the city often discuss and exchange medical knowledge with Doctor Ma and Song Ying.

For people who have suffered a stroke, it is already very good if they can walk with a cane for the rest of their lives.

Mei Yue put her arm around her shoulders and said, "You are not a girl from our Xinghua Village. You don't know how powerful she is. It may be difficult for others, but it may not be easy for her! In short, she cannot be predicted by common sense!"

Yuan Shan rolled her eyes. "I know she's very capable, but this is difficult..."

Before she could finish, Mei Yue interrupted and said, "You don't have to say anything, we just believe in Sister Song Ying!"

At this moment, Song Ying, whom they were talking about, was stunned: "This... I also feel like I'm possessed by an evil spirit!"

On the way to Dongling County, the county government sent two officers to escort the child coroner.

While on the way, Song Ying asked about the case. Unexpectedly, the child coroner's story made her feel cold.

"The deceased was the concubine of a wealthy merchant in Dongling County," the child coroner lowered his voice, his voice sounding particularly eerie amid the clatter of the carriage wheels. "On the night of the accident, the concubine was being helped by her maids to remove her makeup.

Suddenly, she seemed to be frozen in place, unable to move, and her mouth slowly stretched to her ears..."

Song Ying swallowed his saliva, and the strange scene emerged in his mind:

In the room with flickering candlelight, a beautiful woman sat in front of a bronze mirror, and a maid was removing her makeup for her.

Suddenly, the corners of the person's mouth in the bronze mirror began to pull up little by little, and finally stretched to his ears.

She was terrified and wanted to scream and jump up to avoid the bronze mirror, but she was even more horrified to find that she could not move. Even if she used all her strength, she could only make hoarse sounds, as if someone was strangling her neck.

"Ho...ho...ho..."

The maid who was removing her makeup heard it and was very confused: "What's that sound?"

She thought it was coming from outside and was about to go check it out. Just as she was about to leave, she caught a glimpse of her master's strange face in the mirror from the corner of her eye. She screamed in fear and lost her grip on the hairpins and jewelry in her hands, causing them to fall to the ground...

Song Ying shook his head, getting rid of the strange scene in his mind, and told himself again, this is not a ghost, this is not a ghost, it's broad daylight, no ghost dares to come out.

As luck would have it, the carriage drove into a forest.

The winter sun is not very hot to begin with, and when blocked by trees, it becomes even colder.

In addition, the dense leaves on the roadside cut the light and shadow into pieces, making them crisscross and irregular, adding a sense of gloom.

Song Ying felt her back getting even colder. She hugged her arms tightly, arched her back, and leaned against the wall of the carriage again.

Well, there's a carriage wall behind it, and no ghosts are standing behind it!

Her look made the child coroner burst out laughing. "Don't worry, I've been performing autopsies for most of my life and I've never encountered a ghost. There are no ghosts in this world!"

He paused, then sighed, "In this world, sometimes people are scarier than ghosts."

"That's not necessarily true." Before Song Ying could speak, the driver objected in a trembling voice, "My grandfather encountered the same thing when he was a child."

At this point, Song Ying didn't want to hear ghost stories, so he hurriedly asked, "What happened next? Did the maid go to call for help? How did she die?"

It is necessary to understand the case, and forget about other ghost stories.

The child coroner nodded. "Of course they called someone, and Mr. Liu also sent for a doctor. Unfortunately, the patient died before the doctor arrived."

Song Ying tried hard to shake off the thoughts about ghosts in his mind, thought for a moment, and asked, "Could it be poisoned?"

"The Dongling County coroner initially suspected the same thing, but the autopsy showed no evidence of poison. He also questioned the Liu family and learned that on the day of the accident, the concubine's eating utensils were the same as hers.

Although the Liu family is a wealthy business family, they don't have many rules. The whole family eats together, and the tea and cakes after the meal were not found to be poisonous.

After saying this, the child coroner asked expectantly, "Is there any poison that would cause the corners of the deceased's mouth to crack?"

"Aconitum poisoning can cause people to twitch and laugh." Song Ying frowned. "No, it's recorded in the 'Washing Away Wrongs' Record. You must know it."

Since the coroner asked this question, it means that the poison of Aconitum does not match the condition of the deceased.

She pondered, “He died of strychnine poisoning, his face twitching and his teeth bared as if he were smiling, but it doesn’t feel like that.

Thunder god vine..."

She thought of several options, but they were all rejected by the coroner.

If it was these poisons, the Dongling County coroner would not be unable to detect it.

The two discussed it all the way but still had no clue, so they had to put it aside for the time being and decided to wait until the autopsy was completed before making any further decisions.

The next day, at first light, the carriage rolled over the bluestone base of the Dongling County boundary marker. The lantern hanging from the shaft was still swaying, its shade shrouded in night dew, its reflection tinged with bluish light by the brightening sky.

Song Ying lifted the car curtain. The outline of the gray-brown county wall was vaguely visible in the morning mist. A few clumps of dry grass poked out from the cracks in the bricks, rustling in the wind.

The officer driving the carriage pulled the reins with a "whoosh", and the horse pulling the carriage snorted, and the white mist it exhaled mixed with the fog.

The city gate had just opened, and several early-rising vegetable farmers were handing out passes one by one. The gatekeeper hunched his neck and blew on his hands, and the copper badge on his waist jingled.

Song Ying coughed twice and nudged the child coroner, "Dad, we've arrived at Dongling County."

The child coroner rubbed his red eyes with his hand, his eyelids half drooped. He yawned and said, "Let's go directly to the charity cemetery."

The two officers were so frightened that their sleepiness disappeared.

"Are we going now? Aren't we going to wait until daybreak?"

"Well, let's go now!" The child coroner didn't make things difficult for them. "If you're afraid, drive the car to the charity cemetery and then go to the Dongling government office to hand over the documents."

The two officers were so grateful that they nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, I almost forgot about the important matter. I still need to ask the Dongling government to approve it!"